Konrad Henlein

Konrad Henlein (6 May 1898-10 May 1945) was a Nazi Party official who served as Reichsstathalter and Gauleiter of the Reichsgau Sudetenland from 1 May 1939 to 8 May 1945. Henlein, the founder and leader of the Sudeten German Party, was a moderate Nazi during World War II, and he committed suicide whilst in American imprisonment in 1945.

Biography
Konrad Henlein was born in Maffersdorf, Sudetenland, Austria-Hungary on 6 May 1898 to a German family. He served in the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I, and he was captured in Italy in 1916. After the war, he became involved with the German nationalist movement, and he founded the Sudeten German Party, which claimed Czech atrocities against the German minority. This served as Hitler's excuse for his invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1938, and his annexation of the Sudetenland into Nazi Germany. He appointed Henlein leader under the title of Reichskomissar (1938), and Gauleiter and Statthalter in charge of the Sudetenland (1939-45). Henlein was captured by the US Army at the end of World War II, and he committed suicide by cutting his veins with his broken glasses while in US captivity in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia.